The effect of AI on technical skills is closer to the famous Microsoft's strategy - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. First you embrace AI because it appears so help

The effect of AI on technical skills is closer to the famous Microsoft's strategy - Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. First you embrace AI because it appears so helpful: it can do boring stuff for you. Next you change the way you work and think to better leverage the AI greatness: now you verify half-assed AI output instead of making your own, you switch between 5-6 parallel projects done by AI instead of focusing on one thing, you find clever ways to prompt AI instead of building a mental model of your work and so on. You are an extension of AI at this point. Eventually you delegate all thinking to AI, because why bother? Your mind atrophies, while AI becomes good enough to replace you and effectively extinguish.